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FOR a man who is supposed to know his way around politics, it’s kind of scary – and amusing – to look back on the goofs Al Gore and his team of “experts” made during the interminable election campaign.

One of the funniest I’ve heard about occurred Monday afternoon in L.A., when a senior member of the Democratic National Committee was frantically hitting the phones to some of Tinseltown’s most prominent Gore supporters.

The DNC operative was desperately trying to borrow a corporate jet to take Gore-loving Cher across the country, presumably to the midnight rally in Miami, where Jon Bon Jovi and Ste-vie Wonder were helping get the vote out for Al. The usual party friends were all very apologetic, but there just wasn’t a private plane available that day. Maybe they were all at secret locations, awaiting the election result, in case they were needed to whisk their owners off into self-imposed exile.

Anyway, after Cher had been cooling her heels for several hours, the DNC fellow decided to do what politicians hate to do – actually pay for something out of their own pockets. He went to charter a jet on the DNC’s behalf. But he didn’t have a suitable credit card, so Cher never made it to Gore’s side on election eve.